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Poster: sntb Date: Feb 10, 2012 9:19am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Simon and Garfunkel: Cassidy or Bird Song?

Check out this You Tube clip.
When I first heard this version (from the live album "Old Friends") I had to play it back a couple times.

At 2:45 to 4:45, the band launch into a jam that's much more Grateful Dead and not at all Simon and Garfunkel.

Sounds to my ears a bit like someone had been listening to the acoustic 1980 stuff. Or someone's wife (hi Edie!) was subjecting their husband to the Dead yet again and he finally relented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YRdWlZ0S1Q

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Poster: adks12020 Date: Feb 10, 2012 10:11am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Simon and Garfunkel: Cassidy or Bird Song?

God I hate Simon and Garfunkel. Paul Simon on his own is ok. I really like some of his solo stuff...but together they make me want to puke.

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Poster: WillCo Date: Feb 10, 2012 1:28pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Simon and Garfunkel: Cassidy or Bird Song?

I know what you mean about the two of them together; on the earlier LPs particularly the songs were very good, and they sang sweetly together, but they sure do sound dated now. In fairness, the same could be said for some other "folk craze" acts from the early-mid sixties.

The Bridge Over Troubled Water album was tremendous, though! It's hardly a "hidden gem", but I love every note on that album. Give it another try!

That instrumental passage from the clip is interesting. I'm sure that there is a GD influence - it reminds me very much of some of the arrangements from April 1971 that are found on the Ladies and Gentlemen set.

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Poster: johnnyonthespot Date: Feb 10, 2012 1:37pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Simon and Garfunkel: Cassidy or Bird Song?

apparently on his own even Simon is a dick

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/9391/LONE-WOLF-HANGIN%27-WITH-STEVE-BERLIN/3

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Poster: WillCo Date: Feb 10, 2012 1:59pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Simon and Garfunkel: Cassidy or Bird Song?

Meeoww! I thought Graceland was in the clear nowadays, but - the horror - Paul Simon couldn't even get it right over pronouncing les haricots. Fun album all the same.